Agenda for Third Annual Conference on South Asia 2019

Purcell House            

AHCPG02

(Purcell House)

Uzma Falak Mehraj, University of Heidelberg

Women’s Intimate Worlds, Affective Female Alliance and Companionship of Resistance in Kashmir

Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics and Political Science

Vernacular rights cultures and the gendered politics of protest in a state of exception

Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick

& Uzma Falak Mehraj, University of Heidelberg

‘knew nothing about #kashmir . . . but admire its resistance against

colonialism’: Shifting (de)coloniality at the Tate

Chair: Dr. Mohd Tahir Ganie

AHCPG11

(Purcell House)

Salomi Jacob, Jyoti Nivas College

Sex Worker: Antithesis to the Ideal Aspirant

Nasrin Khandoker, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Spiritual vs. Sensual: Subversive female voices in Bhawaiya folk songs of North Bengal to challenge the hierarchy of love

Shanthalembi Lisham, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Marginality and the Politics of Protest: Reflection on Conversation with Female Sex Workers

Prateek Srivastava, University of Cincinnati

War and Violence against Women in Kashmir: The Creation and Neglect of Kashmiri Half-Widows

Ved Prakash, Central University of Rajasthan

Performing Gender, Inviting Abhorrence: A Study of Suffering and Violence through Hijras of Kashmir

Chair: Dr. Charu Gupta

Room: AHCSG05 (Senior House)

Keynote Address:

Romance and Religion: Illicit Intimacies in Modern India

Dr. Charu Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi

10:00 – 10:15

AHCSG05 (Senior House)

10:15- 11:15 AHCSG05 (Senior House)

Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka and Beyond

Prof. Jonathan Spencer, Regius Professor of  South Asian Language, Culture and Society,  School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

AHCPG01

(Purcell House)

Aafreen Mustafa, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Understanding the Changing Dynamic of Muslim Identity in Kolkata

Xenia Rasul, University of Cambridge

The Racialized Other: Pashtun Identity, and the Pakistan State

Chandra Upadhyay, Gauhati University & Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Muslim Minority Identity in Contemporary Nepal

Rajarshi Chakraborty, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Politicization of Foreign Aid and its Effect on Afghanistan, 2001-2016

Chair: Prof. Jonathan Spencer

AHCPG02

(Purcell House)

Thea Buckley, Queen’s University Belfast

Recolonising the Nation: India’s indigenous filmic Titus (The Hungry) and Lear (Iyobinte Pusthakam)

Rosa Maria Garcia, Queen’s University Belfast

Localizing Romeo and Juliet: Ram-Leela and Indian Politics

Ankita Sethi, University of Delhi

Literature as an Alternative Site of Knowledge Construction: A Study of Punjab Crisis of 1980’s through selected Short Stories

Yasmin Ansari, Aligarh Muslim University

Representation of Widows in Select Bollywood Films

Chair: Dr. Giovanna Rampazzo

AHCPG10

(Purcell House)

Neelima B, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

The Affect, Space and Caste in Dalit Literature from India

Pratibha Biswas, Jamia Millia Islamia

Victims or Agents: Self-perception of Dalit Women in Pan on Fire

Chandna Singh Nirwan, Malaviya National Institute of Technology

Dalit Identity in Bama’s Karukku, Sangati, and Just One Word

Chair: Dr. Charu Gupta

AHCPG09

(Purcell House)

Ghulam Ali Shair, University of Warwick

The Case of Classical Music in Pakistan: A Post-Colonial Betrayal

Theertha Raj, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Imperial is In: Postcolonial constructs of heritage and nationhood in Indian haute couture

Shreyasi Pathak, National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar

Martial Music and Photography

Chair: Dr. Paola Rivetti

Room:

AHCPG01

(Purcell House)

Rimi Nath, North-Eastern Hill University

The “Long Shadow” of Bangladeshi Liberation War and the National Question: A Reading of Tahmima Anam’s Bengal Trilogy

Yogesh Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Thus I speak : Between real, real and rhetoric in Kashmir

Rajarshi Kalita, Dept. of English, University of Delhi

“Imagined” Fear: Contemporary Assamese Literature, Memory, and the Politics of Sub-National Identity

Simranjeet Kaur, Pondicherry University

Marginalization of Kashmiri Sikhs in Historical and Contemporary discourse

Chair: Dr. Sharon Murphy

Room:

AHCPG02

(Purcell House)

Dhanasree Jayaram, University of Lausanne

A Divided South Asia at Climate Change Negotiations: Is there Room for Future Cooperation?

Jameson Karns, University of California

Die Indischen Wälder: Germany and the birth of the Indian Forest Department (1855-1910)

A. P. Payal, University of Delhi

Graphic storytelling and the Sundarbans– ecology, folklore, and equity

Ranjith Kallyani, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

The Politics of Environment and Politics against Environment: The Electoral Interests and Formation of an Anti-environment Populism.

Chair: Dr. Diarmuid Torney

AHCPG09

(Purcell House)

Smitana Saikia, FLAME University

Saffronizing the periphery: Examining shifting electoral dynamics in India’s northeast

Maria Amjad, University of Bologna

PTI in Power and the Limits of Populism

Steven Mace, University of Michigan

Voices on Walls: The Public Political Artwork of JNU Delhi

Samaira Khan, Independent Researcher

The First Systematic Study of Electoral System in Pakistan: The case of PTI

Chair: Prof. Subrata K. Mitra

AHCPG10

(Purcell House)

Samayita Banerjee, Ashoka University

The Anxiety of Antiquities: Role of Archaeology, Museums and Objects in building a nation

Chitra Adkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Hindutva and the Political Economy of the Indian Beef

Bhargabi Das, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Miya Poetry Movement and the NRC: Questioning Borders?

Lourens Wouter van Haaften, KU Leuven

Management Education and Nation Building; Locating IIM-Ahmedabad in India’s Social Imaginaries of Progress since 1961

Vadivel Raj, Trinity College Dublin

The Rise and Importance of Tamil Nationalism in India

Chair: Prof. John Doyle  

AHCPG01

(Purcell House)

Diana Dimitrova, University of Montreal

Constructing Radhasoami Cultural Identity – Discourses and Ideologies

Shafiq Qurban, International Islamic University

Discourse of Pakistan Identity under Strand of Neo Liberal Citizenship: A Case Study of Musharraf Regime

Livika, Tata Institute of Social Science

Construction of knowledge and identity: The politics of exclusion of Naga culture from social sciences textbooks of SCERT Nagaland

Richa Rana, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Neoliberalism, Caste, and Class: The Moderators of Achievement Motivation Process of Women Research Scholars in India

Chair: Prof. Mondira Dutta

AHCPG10

(Purcell House)

Lily Tekseng, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Tribal Learns to Write: ‘Written-Orality’ as a Mode of Interrogating the Archival Narrative of the Indian Northeast

Jinan Ashraf, University of Hyderabad

Toward Critical Pedagogies of Reading: James Joyce and the English Classroom in India

Anisha Bordoloi, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development

Recruiting ‘Junglees’ for a ‘Jungle’: A Historical Study of the Homogenisation of Lands and Populations Through the Recruitment of Tea Plantation Labour to Assam

Chair: Dr. Michael Hinds

AHCPG09

(Purcell House)

Praveena Kannangattukuzhiyil Prabhakaran, University of Hyderabad

Unheard Voices: Narrativising #Hetoo campaign in the Cyberspace

Shikhar  Goel, Ambedkar University

Shutting the Net Down

Chair: Dr. Eugenia Siapera

(Purcell House)

Dhammadeep Wankhede, Gulbarga University

Buddha; A Ray of Hope in Modern Dalit Literature

Hanamant Pote, Gulbarga University

Dalit Consciousness In The Stories Of Devanooru Mahadeva

Vikram Visaji, Central University of Karnataka

The Poetry Of K.B. Siddhaiah: A Study In Dalit Puranas And Dalit Cultural Discourses

Somashekara D, Central University of Karnataka

Songs Of Protest:  A Socio-Cultural Identity of The Dalits

Shrishail Nagaraj, Gulbarga University

Reflection of Dalit Identity and Grievances in Prof. Pote’s Short Stories

Chair: Tapasya Narang

Room:

AHCPG02

Purcell House

Debarati Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Locating Myths in Mahasweta Devi’s Literary Works

Nisha Kommattam, University of Chicago

The Public Secret: Narratives of Transgression from South India

Amit Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Dalit’s in Hindi Cinema: A Binary of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’

Akshat Seth, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Representations of the Nation in Postmillennial Indian English Commercial Fiction

Chair: Prof. Eileen Connolly

AHCPG09

Purcell House

Panel Sixteen: Dalit Sub-alternity

Mousumi Mandal, Presidency University

Banabibi and the Forest Workers of Sundarbans – A Study of their ‘Unresolved Antagonism’ with the Normative Religions

Kalyan Kumar Das, Presidency University

The Doms of West Bengal and a Contemporary ‘Career of the Anti-God’

Vincent Kelley , King’s College London

Ambedkarites After Conversion: Contested Sacred Space, Conflicting Buddhisms, and Dalit Popular Culture in Delhi’s Urban Periphery

Florian Schybilski, University of Potsdam

‘Modernity as Salvation’ – Narendra Jadhav’s Outcaste and Dalit

Human Rights

Chair: Prof. Jonathan Spencer

Room:

AHCPG11

Purcell House

Panel Seventeen: Contested Beliefs in Nationalism

Yasir Bashir, Jamia Millia Islamia

Beyond 1947 and Accession: Mapping Contested Histories of the Kashmir Conflict

Nandini Gupta, Trinity College Dublin

Can Words Speak Louder than Bullets? : Tracing the Role of Feminist Nationalism in Kashmiri Women’s Struggle for Freedom and Peace

Alex Paul O’Connell, Independent researcher

Saffron Secularism: Religious Nationalism in India

Krishanu Adhikari, K.R.K.K. College

Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction and the Question of Margin: A Select Study

Chandrima Das, Durgapur Women’s College

The Reluctant Administrator: A Reading of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s IAS Novels

Chair: Dr. Kenneth McDonagh

AHCPG02

Purcell House

Dalel Benbabaali, University of Oxford

‘Hill and plain land Adivasis of Bangladesh: A comparative study of indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and in Northern Bangladesh’

Bishnu Satapathy, University of Delhi

Hinduization and Tribal Mobilization

Chandreyi Sengupta, Jadavpur University

Co-existence of cooperation and conflict: Reconstructing identities in the Koch-Rajbanshi sovereignty politics of India

Nupur Tiwary, KU Leuven

From Christian missionary schools to Ashram schools: deciphering the concept of education for Adivasis in Jharkhand, India

Chair: Prof. John Doyle

AHCPG09

Purcell House

Panel Nineteen: Identity Formation in the North- East

Rinzing Ongmu Sherpa, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Politics of Ethnicity and Identity Formation: A Study of the Sherpas of Sikkim Post 1975

Mukuta Borah, Sharda University

Narrating Conflict: Representations of Women Caught in Conflict Zones in Contemporary Assamese Literature

Violina Borah, University of Delhi

Felanee: Framing identities of women during the socio-political movements in Assam in the 1970s

Antora Borah, University of Delhi

Semiya as Hybrid Identity: Immigrant Bangladeshi in an Emergent Collectivity in a foothill village of Assam-Nagaland

Chair: Dr. Jivanta Schottli

AHCPG02

Purcell House

Panel Twenty: Interpreting the Past

Rukma Prince, University of Hyderabad

Beyond the Secular: Religion in Contemporary Pakistani Novels in English

Averi Saha, Kanchrapara College

Narration and Interpretation: Oral and Written Retelling of Indian Myths

Anindita Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

Reflecting the Real: Class to Caste Conflict in India

Anuroop Kaur Sandhu, University of Delhi

Mother Tongue and Identity Politics: A Comparative Study of the

Role of Singh Sabha Movement and Gaelic League in the Creation of a

Political and Literary Identity of Punjab and Ireland

Chair: Dr. Arpita Chakraborty

AHCPG09

Purcell House

Ina Goel, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The queer paradox of being ‘third’ gender – constructions and contradictions in framing the hijra identity in India

Beauty Thounaojam, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Transgender Idenan Experience: A Case Study of the Nupi-Maanbi of Manipur

Agaja P, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Home away from Natal Home : A Study of Migrant transmen in Bangalore city

Priya Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Whose “ethos”?: A critique of the heteronormative policy-making around Indian Surrogacy

Madhuparna Karmakar, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University

Identity Politics, ‘Difference’ and Feminisms in India

Chair: Dr. Jean-Phillipe Imbert

AHCPG11

Purcell House

Dhananjay Kumar Rai, Central University of Gujarat

Irreconcilable Reconciliation and Recovering the Political: A Quest for De-Identitarianism in South Asia

Rityusha Tiwary, Delhi University

The Nation and the Other: Tales of Subversion and Convalescence in Contemporary Hindi Cinema

Gourab Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Love in the time of Smart-phones: Reading Caste and Masculinity in Gay Cruising and Tourism in India

Chair: Prof. Mondira Dutta

15:30 – 16:30

AHCPG02

Purcell House

Political Science in an Age of Uncertainty: The ‘Rational’ Voter in Indian Elections

Welcome and Vote of Thanks by Prof. John Doyle, Director, IICRR, Dublin City University

Cultural Event and Wine Reception (Dining Hall)

Concert by DCU Trad Society